gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' label is confusing

[Nathan L. Adams]

The 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' setting defaults to ON.

Toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF causes the wifi device to be soft blocked.

BEFORE$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

AFTER$ sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center
gnome-control-center:
  Installed: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  Candidate: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages

Expected behavior: Power saving for wifi will be disabled.

Actual behavior: Wifi is disabled.

[Nathan L. Adams (nla)]

Running 'sudo rfkill unblock wifi' alone is NOT a workaround.

After toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF, gnome-control-center wifi reports "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found".

The only 'workaround' is to leave 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' set to ON, and to run 'sudo rfkill unblock wifi' on each reboot.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The control is to turn wifi on or off, the subtitle is an hint that turning wifi off save power. The wording is confusing though, which has been reported upstream as https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/53

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's fixed in the current version

[raerek (raerek)]

Eactly same beaviour as described above:
Turning off the swicth in gnome-control-center turns off wifi in the panel and rfkill shows soft block.
"sudo nmcli radio wifi" outputs disabled
"sudo nmcli radio wifi on" enables wifi and turns the switch on (permits disabling wifi in power save)

[raerek (raerek)]

Sorry, forgot to mention that same behaviour is in 20.04 LTS.